THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF MALTA

The Parliament House of Malta, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, is part of the wider redevelopment of Valletta’s city gate, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Conceived as two compact stone volumes suspended on slender steel columns, the building combines civic presence, environmental responsibility, and architectural lightness. UniFor contributed to the project with custom furniture, partition systems, and furnishings for the parliamentary chamber, offices, and meeting areas.

The architecture is defined by two massive blocks clad in local stone, whose sculpted surfaces filter sunlight while allowing natural light to enter the building. Inside, the same material continuity creates a sober and contemporary environment, where lightness, simplicity, and function replace any form of rhetorical monumentality.

At the heart of the building is the parliamentary chamber, the most representative space of the institution. For this room, UniFor designed and supplied custom desks developed specifically around the geometry of the chamber, translating the architectural layout into a precise and functional furniture system.

For the offices and meeting rooms, UniFor supplied standard and customized elements from the Naòs System and MDL System collections, together with specially designed pieces. Natural cherry finishes, refined colours, and selected materials define a coherent atmosphere, balancing institutional identity and daily use.

Offices, meeting rooms, and interpreters’ booths are defined by Parete RP partition walls, designed by Renzo Piano and produced by UniFor. The system combines aluminium profiles with a metallised grey finish, extra-clear glass, light grey technical fabric screens, painted metal panels, and sliding or hinged glass doors.

The supply also included custom reception desks and tables for private offices, characterized by metal structures and natural cherry finishes. These elements extend the material language of the parliamentary chamber into the other areas of the building, reinforcing continuity across the interiors.